Prostitute vs Chromo - What's the difference?
prostitute | chromo |
A person who performs sexual activity for payment, especially a woman
A person who is perceived as engaging in sexual activity with many people.
A person who does, or offers to do, an activity for money, despite personal dislike or dishonour.
(usually reflexively) To perform sexual activity for money
To make another person, or organisation, prostitute themselves.
* Bible, Leviticus xix. 29
(derogatory) To use one's talents in return for money or fame
(figuratively) To exploit for base purposes; to whore.
(chiefly, historical) A color print produced by chromolithography
* {{quote-book, year=1870, author=Various, title=Punchinello Vol. 1, No. 21, August 20, 1870, chapter=, edition=
, passage=All Nature is smiling, in fact, with one large, comprehensive smile, exactly like a first-class PRANG chromo with a fresh coat of varnish upon it. }}
* {{quote-book, year=1883, author=Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens), title=Life on the Mississippi, chapter=, edition=
, passage=It was manifest that we all felt that we ought to send the poor shoemaker SOMETHING. There was long and thoughtful discussion of this point; and we finally decided to send him a chromo . }}
* {{quote-news, year=1999, date=February 19, author=Deanna Isaacs, title=On Exhibit: a treasure trove of Mexican pop art, work=Chicago Reader
, passage=The neglected warehouse turned out to be a treasury of calendar art from the 1930s through the 1970s, years when chromo art calendars were a major advertising medium, a vehicle for national pride, and a fixture in nearly every home, business, and school. }}
A prostitute.
* 1970 , John Glassco, Memoirs of Montparnasse , New York 2007, p. 81:
(genetics) Of or relating to the chromodomain, a protein structural domain associated with chromatin production
* {{quote-journal, 1998, date=April 24, Angus I. Lamond & William C. Earnshaw, Structure and Function in the Nucleus, Science
, passage=HP1 shares an ~50-amino acid NH 2 -terminal sequence motif, the chromo domain, with polycomb'', an important regulatory gene that functions in the stable repression of homeotic genes during ''Drosophila development (28 ). }}
* {{quote-journal, 2001, date=April 6, Jun-ichi Nakayama et al., Role of Histone H3 Lysine 9 Methylation in Epigenetic Control of Heterochromatin Assembly, Science
, passage=To determine whether the conserved domains, the chromo , SET, and cysteine-rich regions, were also critical for Clr4 HMTase activity, we tested mutant Clr4 proteins for HMTase activity. }}
As nouns the difference between prostitute and chromo
is that prostitute is a person who performs sexual activity for payment, especially a woman while chromo is (chiefly|historical) a color print produced by chromolithography or chromo can be a prostitute.As a verb prostitute
is (usually reflexively) to perform sexual activity for money.As an adjective chromo is
(genetics) of or relating to the chromodomain, a protein structural domain associated with chromatin production.prostitute
English
(wikipedia prostitute)Noun
(en noun)- I currently work as a prostitute in order to pay off my university debts .
Usage notes
* The noun is gender-neutral.Synonyms
* (person who performs sexual activity for payment) See also * (person perceived as engaging in sexual activity) See also , * (person who does an activity for money) sell outVerb
(prostitut)- Do not prostitute thy daughter.
- Yet again a commercial firm had prostituted a traditional song by setting an advertising jingle to its tune.
chromo
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Etymology 1
From chromolithograph.Noun
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Etymology 2
Noun
(en noun)- That dried-up lady snob lived behind lace curtains all her life. She's of no more importance than a chromo .
Etymology 3
From chromodomain.Adjective
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